00:00May I ask a question? Interfax news agency, Lana Samsonia. Over the weekend, you visited
00:07one of the command posts of the Joint Group of Forces and focused on the capture of the
00:11city of Krasnormaisk. It is currently under the complete control of the Russian Armed Forces.
00:18Why is this city so important? This city has been and continues to be held in high regard
00:25by both the Ukrainian side and the Russian Armed Forces. It truly is of particular importance
00:36because, uh, this city is not just a large infrastructure facility connected to an entire
00:42network of means of communication with the region. But, uh, the most important thing is
00:54that, overall, speaking in military terms, it is a good springboard for achieving all
01:00the objectives set at the beginning of the special military operation.
01:09That is, from here, from this springboard, from this sector, the Russian Army is easily
01:14able to advance in all directions, which the general staff considers the most promising.
01:19That's precisely why it's always been designated as a priority by the Ukrainian side in the
01:29Donetsk People's Republic. And by our armed forces, too, along with a number of other Ukrainian
01:36outposts. And it was also one of the most powerful Ukrainian outposts. And today, it's entirely in the
01:45hands of the Russian army, as the commander of the sender group recently reported.
01:53This question apparently arises because there are still doubts about whether this is actually true.
02:00Well, if anyone has doubts, we've already discussed this, and I've already proposed it.
02:05And what did I propose?
02:07You're foreign and even Ukrainian colleagues, please, we're ready to grant Ukrainian journalists
02:15the right to visit the city of Krasnormaisk and see for themselves.
02:24What's happening there, and who really controls that town?
02:27I remember when we did this a few weeks ago, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a warning,
02:36saying that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was categorically opposed, and began threatening
02:41journalists, and so on.
02:45But right now, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nothing to do with this,
02:49since the city is entirely in the hands of the Russian armed forces.
02:53Of course, there are certain levels of danger, given that there are close-in areas and drones
03:02are constantly in the air, but our Russian war correspondents are working.
03:13I'm sure there are people in the West who honestly fulfill their professional duties and
03:17are ready to objectively inform their listeners and readers about what's happening in the world,
03:22including in Ukraine.
03:29Therefore, we will do everything to ensure their safety, but we are ready to take them to all the
03:34districts of Krasnormaisk.
03:39The same applies to Kupiansk.
03:42Hello, Vladimir Vladimirovich, regarding Kupiansk.
03:45They simply didn't allow it, as Alexander Yershlyev said yesterday, when Zelensky stated that the
03:49Ukrainian armed forces are still in Kupiansk, what do you think he meant by that, you should
03:53ask him, because Kupiansk has been in our hands for several days now, or rather, for several weeks now.
04:01It seems to me that the Ukrainian leadership is currently preoccupied with other matters than
04:06the situation in the combat zone.
04:10In fact, it seems like they live on another planet.
04:15Besides, being constantly on the move, um, begging for money, they probably have no time for current
04:22affairs, neither in the economy nor at the front.
04:25As for Kupiansk, Kupiansk consists of two parts, one part, the larger one, the main part of the city
04:34center, is on the right bank of the river.
04:40The smaller part is on the left bank.
04:46Russian troops control both the right bank part entirely and the left bank part, also entirely.
04:55And a little further south along the river, there is another settlement called Kupiansk-Uzlova.
05:05There are, I think, 2,000 buildings there.
05:11There is fighting going on there.
05:13600 buildings, somewhere around 1,000 already, well, 600 to 650 in the hands of the Russian army.
05:20They are advancing.
05:21I think that in a few days we will also take this settlement, but it is a separate settlement.
05:30And besides everything else, I would like to remind you that an enemy group of 15 battalions
05:35is blocked on the left bank of the river.
05:40Ah, and Russian troops have begun to eliminate it.
05:43Alayna Nefadova, news.
05:49You will soon meet with Steve Witkoff, who came to Moscow specifically for this.
05:54In fact, the negotiation process is currently only taking place with the American side.
05:59Why are the Europeans silent?
06:00Why are they so removed from this process?
06:02Well, the Europeans are not silent.
06:04They are offended that they have been, so to speak, removed from the negotiations.
06:08But I want to point out that no one removed them.
06:11They removed themselves.
06:13After all, we had close contact with them at one time.
06:17Then they abruptly cut off contact with Russia.
06:20It was their initiative.
06:22Why did they do this?
06:27Because they've adopted the idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia and, apparently,
06:32still live in these illusions, although they understand in their heads that this is long
06:37in the past, that it couldn't have happened.
06:43Ah, they've been engaging in wishful thinking all along, but they can't admit it to themselves,
06:48they don't want to.
06:50They've removed themselves from this process.
06:53That's the first thing.
06:54Second, seeing that the results today aren't to their liking, they've begun to hinder the
07:02current U.S. administration and President Trump from achieving peace.
07:11Through negotiations.
07:14They themselves have rejected peace talks and are hindering President Trump.
07:20Third, they have no peace agenda.
07:25They're on the side of war.
07:29And even when they try to supposedly make some changes to Trump's proposal, we clearly
07:34see it.
07:41All these changes are aimed at one thing.
07:44Blocking the entire peace process altogether, putting forward demands that are absolutely
07:49unacceptable to Russia, they know this, and thereby blaming Russia for
07:53curtailing the peace process, that's their goal.
08:03We see this clearly.
08:09Therefore, if they really want to return to reality, based on the situation that is developing
08:14on the ground, as I have said in such cases, then go ahead, we will allow it.
08:19Regarding Syart's statement, can I ask one more question?
08:26Syart said today that we could find ourselves in a state of war with Europe.
08:30Just today, he said that NATO, its European part, intends to bring its troops to full combat
08:34readiness by 2029, and by 2030 there is a risk of armed conflict.
08:39This is, in fact, a very serious matter, almost sensational.
08:42What is your attitude towards this?
08:44Are we preparing for something?
08:46Indeed.
08:47We are not going to war with Europe.
08:49I have already said this a hundred times.
08:51But if Europe suddenly wants to fight us and starts, we are ready right now.
08:58There can be no doubt about that.
09:00The only question is what?
09:02If Europe suddenly starts a war itself, it seems to me that it will happen very quickly.
09:07This is not Ukraine.
09:11We're acting surgically with Ukraine, carefully, so that, well, it's clear, right?
09:19This isn't war in the direct, modern sense of the word.
09:25If Europe suddenly wants to start a war with us and does, a situation could very quickly arise
09:31in which we won't have anyone to negotiate with.
09:33Our own channel 1.
09:36Please comment on the attacks on tankers off the coast of Turkey.
09:40Just today, another such incident occurred.
09:43Well, to be honest, I haven't even received the information yet.
09:47I know that this happened.
09:49Attacks on tankers in neutral, or even not neutral, waters, but in the special economic
09:54zone of another state, a third state.
09:57This is piracy, nothing less.
09:59So, they, the Ukrainian armed forces, previously tried to strike our ports, our seaports.
10:06We responded, precisely.
10:09We did not begin these operations with such strikes.
10:13I assure you that they are much more effective and powerful.
10:17And this primarily concerned those vessels, ships that were delivering military property,
10:24equipment, and ammunition to Ukraine.
10:26And we hit exactly where we wanted, as evidenced by the secondary explosions we observed through
10:36aerial reconnaissance.
10:39But, uh, what the Ukrainian armed forces are doing now is piracy.
10:45What countermeasures can we take?
10:47First, we will expand the range of such strikes against port facilities and ships, ships calling
10:54at Ukrainian ports.
10:58First, second.
11:00If this continues, we will consider the possibility, I'm not saying we will do this, but we will
11:06consider the possibility of retaliatory measures against the vessels of those countries that
11:11are helping Ukraine carry out these hellish actions.
11:13Well, the most radical option is to cut Ukraine off from the sea, then it will be impossible
11:19for it to engage in piracy, in principle.
11:22But this is all escalating.
11:27I hope that, uh, the Ukrainian military leadership, the political leadership, and those behind them,
11:33will consider whether this practice is worth continuing.
11:38Very much.
11:40Yeah.
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